UEFA EURO 1976 (champions - Czechoslovakia)
Czechoslovakia beat West Germany 5-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at the Stadion Crvena zvezda in Belgrade on 20 June 1976 - the first major international tournament final ever decided by a shoot-out. They had led 2-0 before Bernd Holzenbein equalised in the dying seconds, and the first seven penalties were all scored before Antonin Panenka's chip.
Why this wins its question: The final survives in memory as one kick, which buries the two things that make it historically important: it was the first major international final ever decided on penalties, and the first seven kicks of that shoot-out all went in, so the Panenka was the fifth and decisive one rather than a flourish in a mess. UEFA's report also has the match itself - a 2-0 lead surrendered to a Holzenbein header in the dying seconds - and the guide the fact that every match at the four-team tournament went to extra time.
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Czechoslovakia beat West Germany 5-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw over 120 minutes in the EURO 1976 final at the Stadion Crvena zvezda in Belgrade on 20 June 1976, for what remains their only European title. It was the first time a major international tournament final went to penalties.
Jan Svehlik put Czechoslovakia ahead after eight minutes, Berti Vogts having given the ball away close to his own penalty area: Koloman Gogh drew a save from Sepp Maier, Zdenek Nehoda crossed from the right and Svehlik arrived from deep to drive it in. Karol Dobias made it 2-0 when Marian Masny's free-kick, given for a Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck foul on Gogh, was only half cleared and Dobias's angled shot sneaked past Maier.
Dieter Muller pulled one back within three minutes with an acrobatic volley from Rainer Bonhof's cross, and Bernd Holzenbein headed the equaliser from a Bonhof corner in the dying seconds, after the 34-year-old Ivo Viktor had held the lead with a string of saves including from Heinz Flohe and a Bonhof free-kick.
In the shoot-out the first seven kicks were all scored. Uli Hoeness then fired West Germany's fourth over the bar, leaving Antonin Panenka to win it, which he did by waiting for Maier to dive and chipping the ball down the middle.
All four matches of the four-team finals, held in Yugoslavia from 16 to 20 June 1976, went to extra time - UEFA calls it the most competitive EURO in history - and only the final was settled on penalties. Czechoslovakia beat the Netherlands 3-1 and West Germany beat hosts Yugoslavia 4-2, both after extra time.
Dieter Muller was top scorer with four goals, having scored a hat-trick in the semi-final against Yugoslavia on his international debut and struck again in the final three days later; he won only 12 caps in all, scoring nine. Captain Anton Ondrus scored in the semi-final against the Netherlands and, in the same match, the EURO's first own goal.
Coach Vaclav Jezek, with assistant Jozef Venglos, reportedly prepared his players for shoot-outs by asking spectators to boo and whistle while they practised penalties in training. West Germany, coached by Helmut Schon and captained by Franz Beckenbauer, arrived as reigning world and European champions. Sergio Gonella of Italy refereed.